[The irritated noise that gets is practically a growl, a cranky sound that turns into another cough.]

They aren't my literal lungs. Come on. You have to have read one of these fanfics. The plants just grow inside your lungs. [Although in this case, he thinks it's his stomach? That's where most of the pain is.

Doesn't matter.] This isn't stopping until we end it. [So they need to end it. Dirk dodges forward, and he's met with a tendril that slaps out at him, something he barely dodges back from as he swings his sword again. Gotta cut that up.]